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111151?' PORTLAND, OKEGOX, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER li'2, 1919. I'llICE FIVE CENTS lO, P,,ffi. uond-CT.ts Miller. BUILDING OF WOODEN SHIPS RESUMED HERE PEX1XSCLA PLANT, IDLE SIXCE OCT. 1, IX OPERATION. BOY, 3, KIDNAPED, BRUTALLY SLAIN VANC6UVER WOMAN ACQUITTED BY JURY MRS. BEACREGARD FOUND SOT WHEAT EMBARGO TO PF flPI F YPASS uavc: uaddv cmiin BRITISH RAP U.S. UL Lit I L.U J11 ULU. 1J iinvu i irw i i oiy u ' OH TREATY ISSUE FOR KILLING PACT WILSOX SIGNS PROCLAMATION TKRMIXATIXG CONTROL. ROMANCE BORN OF PLUNGE TO END ALL PERHAPS. GUILTY OF MURDER. TWO iURDERED AT ROAD HOUSE V J. N. Burgess, Higlway Commissioner, Slain GEORGE PERRiNGER VICTIM Three Masked Men Rob Pa trons of Claremont Tavern Shots Fired in Clash. ESCAPE IS MADE IN AUTO Occupants Forced to Lie Down on Floor as Robbers Flee; Jewelry Is Stolen. 97000 RKW ARD OFFERED FOR CAl'TIRK OF TAVERN MIRDERERS. Immediately after hearing- of the murders. Mayor Baker, act ing for the city of Portland, of fered a reward of $1000 for the capture of the murderers, dead or alive, "dead preferably," the mayor stated in announcing his action. Shortly after Mayor Ba ker had made his announcement J. M. Keeney of the Cunning ham Sheep &. Land company of Pendleton, Or., offered an addi tional reward of $1000, and W. L. Thompson, a banker, $5000 more, making the price on the heads of the murderous band $7000. Every available police officer was placed at work in a country-wide man hunt under the personal orders of Mayor Baker. Both day and night shifts of the city's force were given instructions to take -no rest until the outlaws are under arrest or killed. ! Jasper Newton Burgess, state highway commissioner from Pendle ton, Or., and George E. Perringer, a wealthy rancher from the Pendleton district, were killed instantly at 11:30 o'clock last night during the robbery of Claremont tavern, on the Linnton road, by three highwaymen. The robbers relieved about 25 guests and employes of the roadhouse of their money and jewels, obtaining about $2550 from individuals and the tavern safe. Mr. Perringer, Mr. Burgese and E. P. Marshall, another Pendleton man, were in a private dining room at the back of the tavern. All the shooting, some four Shots, took place there. Mr. Burgess was shot in the head and Mr. Perringer in the heart. The three had stopped for lunch in the course of an automobile ride. Patrolman Is Robbed. Patrolman Case, who entered the Strikers Returning to Positions at Old Scale San Francisco Re ports Similar Action. The building of wooden ships, which has been at a standstill here since the strike of metal trades workmen was called, October 1, has been resumed at the Peninsula Ship building company's plant. A force of about 200 workmen was engaged there Thursday and yesterday, and the number is being increased stead ily as former employes of the plant return to their positions. An invitation to all men who were on tie payroll of the company Octo ber 1 to returi to their old positions has been extended by F. C. Knapp, piesident of the -.ompany. None but former employes ere being engaged at present. .vlen are returning to work at the old scale in effect before the strike was called. Four vessels remain to be com pleted by the Peninsula company for the emergency fleet corporation. They are the steamers Corone and Cartona, which have been launched and are now being outfitted at the plant, and two hulls still on the ways, the Cossa and Cotys, which are being finished as sailing schooners. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21. The shipyards of the San Francisco bay region will reopen Monday. Novem ber 4, after Having been closed since Octoter 1 by strike conditions., the California Metal Trades association, the organization of shipyard .opera tors, Knnounced here today. Although a recent registration did not provide enough men to operate the yards at capacity, no attempt will be made to bring in workmen to fill the vacant places for 10 days irom date or opening, it was an nounced. "This is to provide an op portunity for those men who have hesitated to register to report for duty," the announcement read. "If at the end of this time," It con tinued, "or on December 3, the places are not all filled, it is our purpose to make announcements in the daily papers of the northwest, southern California and throughout the east that positions are open in the ship yards, commercial shops and foun dries in the San Francisco bay dis trict "Yards, shops and foundries, short' ly after resuming operations, will de termine upon a policy of individual shipyard or shop collective bargain Ing." The strike threw approximately 40,000 men out of employment in the bay district. Unclad Skeleton Found in in Woods Near Home. NATION-WIDE SEAftCH ENDS Citizens, ex-Service Men and Police Miss Death Spot. HUNTER FINDS CLOTHING STUDENTS MAY DIG C0M 1500 Kansas Koys Volunteer Serv ices During Strike. TOPEKA. Kan., Nov. 21. In re sponse to a telegram from Governor Harding of Iowa asking that the gov ernor of Kansas agree to a 60 per cen increase in wages to the striking miners pending further settlement. Governor H. J. Allen stated that he ! could not agree to such a proposal. 1 If the Kansas miners refuse to go to them by Governor Allen, 1500 young men of the Kansas State Agricultural college are willing to dig coal, said a telegram to the governor today. Stories ol Kidnaping by Mistake for. Rich Man's Son Cause Stir Mother Collapses. (Copyright hy tlie New Tork World. Pub- lisnea ny Arrangement. j HAMMONTON, N. J.. Nov. 21. (Special.) The nation-wide search for poor little Billy Dansey, the 3-year- old child who disappeared from his home here six weeks ago, came to a tragic conclusion today when his un clothed skeleton was found in the woods three miles from his home. But the whole mystery has not yet been solved. It now appears on the basis of an investigation made to night by local and county authorities that the child not only was kidnaped, but was brutally murdered, after be ing stripped of his clothing, by a de generate of the worst type. All the officials working on the case are convinced that the boy met his death in this way. but they ad mit that so much time has elapsed th Verdict - Is Reached Following Short Deliberation; Accidental Shooting- Basis of Defense. VANCOUVER. Wash., Nov. tl. (Special.) Mrs. Elizabeth Beauregard was acquitted of murder in the first degree by a jury here today in the superior court after a trial which be gan the first of the week. She was charged with - killing her hueband. Jules J. Beauregard, on the evening of August 22, in his pawnshop and store at 702 Main street. The evidence of the case was all in Thursday and Judge W. O. Chapman of Tacoma, who sat in the case, gave his instructions immedfately afterwards. Argument of the case began at 9 o-dock this morning when W. E. Yates, county attorney, made a plea for conviction. He was followed by Daniel E. Hardin, for the defense, who spoke 45 minutes, and Henry Crass, who spoke an hour. Mr Yates then spoke a few minutes in rebuttal. The case was in the keeping of the jury at 12:15 o'clock. The jury went to lunch and after being locked in the jury room, did not give notice of an agreement until 5 o'clock. Announcement waa made that the jury had agreed to an acquittal. Mrs. Beauregard, accompanied by her daughter, left the courtroom a free woman, but apparently not a happy one. She shook bands with the mem bers of the jury before leaving. Attorneys for the defense at the be ginning of the trial withdrew the plea of temporary insanity, and when Mr. Crass outlined the case it was shown that the plea was accidental shooting, and it was on these grounds that she was acquitted. Mrs. Beauregard sat throughout the trial without showing emotion until this morningwhen her attorneys were appealing to the jury's sympathy. Her daughter sat immediately behind her, and tears began to drop from her eyes first. Then Mrs. Beauregard shed at it may be impossible to solve j tears but remained outwardly calm. the problem fully by the capture of the murderer. Boy's Clothing: Foand IVearby. The boy's clothing was found with in a radius of 50 feet of the skeleton. About 6 feet away were the blue rompers he had worn when last seen at home. Further on was his famil iar little gray-striped baseball cap with a peak. Near that was his small brown sweater. The rest of his clothing was nearby. It may never be determined in .ex actly what manner the child met his death unless the murderer Is caught and induced to confess, because the decomposed condition of the body makes it impossible to find marks of violence. Animals and birds of prey had eaten most of the flesh. There is no question that the boy met his death in his own vicinity within a comparatively short time after he disappeared. Search Mioses Death Spot. This is more striking because of the stir created by his case throughout (Concluded on Page 7. Column 4.) The case has attracted much inter est from the beginning and the court room was filled largely with women, many of whom brought their lunches and their crocheting or needlework. Many could not gain admission and were turned away. As Mrs. Beaure gard was released upon 96000 bail after she had been in ja.il six or seven weeks, she was not under guard at any time during the trial, and she was driven to and from her home in the family automobile. In his appeal to the; Jury today Mr. Crass said that she had already suf fered the tortures of hell, and tha the memory of the accident would re main a scar upon her memory until death. Crusader's Injured Eye Useless. LONDON, Nov. 21. Three specialists who today examined William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, the American Anti-Saloon league campaigner, whose eye was injured during a students demonstration against him recently, found Mr. Johnson utterly unable to see with it. Government to Supply Foreign De mands Not Met by Private Trade, Says Mr. Barnes. NEW YORK. Nov. 21. Embargoes on wheat and wheat flour will be lift ed December 15, it was announced by he United States grain corporation late today. Lifting embargoes on both exports nd imports followed the action of President Wilson in Washington to day in signing a proclamation com pletely terminating the embargo con trol which has been in effect for more than two years. - Control over embargoes first was exercised by the war trade board to protect the supplies of wheat and wheat flour for the allies. Later con trol was taken over" by Julius H. Barnes, wheat director, under the wheat guarantee bill. ' Discussing the lifting of the em bargo Mr. Barnes said: This Is one step in the necessary reconstruction of trade facilities brok en by the war. which must function when the grain corporation termi nates its three years' work. While ocean transport conditions and also disorganized international finance will probably prevent free trading be tween merchants of the various coun tries for some time, it is expected that, step by step, international trade may be reknit in the usual channels. Until this is fully accomplished the grain corporation will continue to sell from its stocks of wheat and wheat flour the foreign trade that is not supplied under private business ini tiative. "This release of embargo permits Canadian wheat and wheat flour to enter American markets free of duty under rulings of the customs service. It is expected that this will greatly enlarge the United States" supply of spring wheat flours, which are favor ites In the baking trade and which. because of the partial crop failure in the northwest this year, have been relatively in light supply." Mr. Barnes also stated that the sales of the grain corporation from its accumulated stocks, largely in western markets, to American mills. under its advertised offer effective yesterday, have amounted to about 30,000,000 bushels. He added that mills in all sections now are amply supplied with wheat, though some particular qualities of wheat are relatively in light supply. Max H. Houser, second vice-presi- deat- of the United States grain cor ppration,' with headquarters in JPort land, yesterday issued the following bulletin: "The president by proclamation has removed, effective December 15, all export and import embargo restric tions on wheat and wheat flour, and thereafter wheat and wheat flour may be exported and imported with out requiring the permit which for merly by the war trade board and latterly by the wheat director has been necessary." Transfer to Political Arena Forecast. NO COMPROMISE, SAYS LODGE Take Reservations Into 1920 Campaign, Plea. SENATOR CONSULTS HAYS Attitude of Democratic Forces With Reference to Plunge Into Pol itics Not Yet Known. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21. The de (Concluded on Page 7, Column . ) DOESN'T SAM GET IN ON IT? $27,000 THEFT CHARGED "Beau Brummell" Bank Clerk Is Arrested at Springfield, 111. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 21. Ralph Deicken, whose dollar tips to barbers and expensive clothes gained him the title of the "Beau Brummei" bank I clerk, was arrested today on a federal i building: during; the robbery, was j warrant charging him with embez- i held up Dy two men and robbed ot his ! oiement oi i,uw irum m Eun and club. Then he was forced to I Farmers State bank, where he was . , .,, .... employed as paying teller until a mingle with the other victims 'while i month ago the robbery went on. I Miss Jessie Conner, bookkeeper, was The highwaymen entered the tav- j arrested on the same charge. Miss em by the front door. In the hall I Conner, it is alleged, assisted Deicken .-WV, hisorf tho hnilHino- fmm tho " covering up nis aelaiu. entrance to the rear were B. J. Mc Cauley of Aberdeen, Wash., and sev eral women. The three robbers, all i of whom wore masks made of hand- First ArTn" Educational Bonus kerchiefs, forced the party into the j Paid at Madison, Wis. ballroom at the end of the building MADISON. Wis., Nov. 21. Eleven opposite where Mr. Burgess, Mr. ' students today are said to be $35,000 Perringer and Mr. Marshall were richer as a result of the payment yes . " terday of their first educational bo- dining. - ' nus. So lone was the line at times One highwayman stood guard over that students were obliged to wait them while the others rounded up an hour before reaching the paymas .vprvnnp in t.hn hiiilri in r Tt mas ter's window. Annuel. evel j i in i was t w i .uv. STUDENTS $35,000 RICHER during the course of the round-up 1 that the robbers entered the private , dining room and killed their victims. a month's pay in the army. Robbers Fire on Patrons. FRENCH AWAIT SOLUTION Mr. Marshall, the survivor of the Paris Paper Expresses Hope fori party, was so badly shaken by the I Treaty Ratification. . - - .1 L 1 I. 1 . . .' 1 irageuy mm. uc wis uuouic to givej PARIS. Nov. 21. The Temps today a coherent account of it, although says it. hopes that a solution will the authorities grilled him until an i be found of the situation created by early hour this morninir. . the failure of the United States senate t, v. . , ... to ratify the peace treaaty with Ger- 'u'" cm.: ,m tuc appear-j many ..DecBUS9 lf the leasue of na ance of the room it is apparent that tjcma can live while awaiting the the highwaymen began shooting as I United States, it cannot endure with- .. .... 1 - Cat,. soon as they entered the room. Mr, Marshall said they fired one shot at him point-blank, but missed him. One shot went through the panel of the door leading from the corri dor. It was evidently fired as the highwaymen entered. Another smashed the' window looking out over the Willamette river. As far as had been determined this morning only ne shot struck out the United States iCouclu.cd on Page 0. Culuum J.) INSURANCE FRAUD FOUND Three New York Men Convicted on Conspiracy Charge. PITTSBURG, Pa.. Nov. 21. Clar- I ence F. Blrdseye, Kellogg Birdseye and George F. Montgomery, all of New York, were today convicted of conspiracy in connection with the fail- ! ure of the Pittsburg Life & Trust company, an insurance corporation. . . . . . j . m- I ' A 7 k I I SSy,-.','','-'SJ'SSVl I I 1 I L"TWS.ifll I ' I'M, I Mil III II. Ill T 1 '. '7. ,J SA I, l i ll ' ..' 3-73.11 HUH I II 1 1 Ir II k . ',WsM'A I II 1 1 1 I Mi'W Asi. . illl I Ml M i l l . 1 1 i ' -TyAVs y. WA wm.VsAiv si lyazz inn! i 1 mmmm i yjr . u i ii i wwiVAV ints- t i i ui .vi t I . Si . 7sL f IV A II I . Vt I l I i H K I II I 1 11 -rf. S 7 'Xif, s7 I 1 VC . J i II 1 h I I II I I ' I 1 tl ' - V, i 6 ' M:r-l n II 11111 f I I W II SWXLSPi. rnrTh SyS ""sssW W k t ir -v ,11, .-. irr v'vwVkV- -ll . 'I .. r y i -j i i kcsov. L55-4- '(... w'ir&srry --i.- j v-a k r.- j s i 1 r .kv mm m d IBM I A - wry: v y ? i m s-v I" - i 1 i. ' 1 r fi irsl I i i - - i I T t'tilfA i II J A. I ' t Ii . . , t i ... f - 1 T r WASHINGTON. Nov. 31. Compro mise efforts to ratify the peace treaty were thrown into the background to day by developments strengthening the possibility that the whole con troversy might be transferred to the political arena for a decision by the people In 19:10. . , Senator Lodge. chairman of the foreign relations committee, and re publican leader of the senate, de clared in a 'statement that there was no room for further compromise." and urged that the reservations of the senate majority be carried into I the campaign. I There was no formal expression to determine whether a like s':and would 1 be taken ultimately by President Wil son and the administration senators. but it developed that the president's senate supporters had no definite as surances as yet that he would re open the subject for compromise by resubmitting the treaty when the new session of congress begins De cember 1. Pmct Political Issue Now. The -declaration of Senator Lodge reversed the position he and most other republican senators had taken toward injection of the treaty into politics and was accepted in congres sional and official circles as clothed with an added significance by Senator Lodge's conference with Will H. Hays, the republican national chairman. Just before the unsuccessful fight Wednes day for ratification with the ma jority reservations included. The statement follows: "I have no especial comment to make. After four months of caref u consideration and discussion the res. ervations were presented to the sen ate. They were purely American in their character, designed solely to Americanize the treaty and make it safe for the United States. "Under the president t orders the followers of the administration in the senate voted down these rese vations It was also shown by a vote that there was a decisive majority against the treaty with the reservations. "Those reservations as presented to the senate will stand. There is no room for further compromise between Americanism and the super-government presented by the league. All I ask is that we may have the oppor tunity to lay those reservations be fore the American people. To that great and final tribunal a1 or. : would I appeal. I Thorooith Study Asked. "I wish to carry those reservations into the campaign. I wish the American people to read and etudy them. They are not like the cov enant of the league. They are sim ple. "I do not see that there Is one of them to which any American can ob ject. I want the people to see them. understand them and think of them in every household, on every farm, in every chop and factory through out the land. Then let them decide." In his letter advising democratic senators to vote against ratification I with the majority reservations. Pres- IHcrtt Wilson characterized them as ennui itut in a- m nullification of the ! ! treaty, and some of his senate fol-1 I lower do not consider it a remote possibility that he may decide to join the issue and let the majority pro gramme stand or fall by the popular j decision in the campaign. Administration senate leaders con tinued to talk compromise and pre dicted that the republicans would j modify their attitude, making it pos I sible to clear away the whole con troversy before the campaign opens. They were confronted with the fact. however, that the republican group I of mild reservationists, on whom i hope of a compromise waa placed, ! had served notice that any further compromise negotiations must be conducted with the republican leader himself. Party Split Averted. Even among the irreconcilable foes of the treaty on the republican side, the statement of Senator Lodge was accepted with satisfaction. Some of ! this group have said openly they would leave the party unless it de clared next year for outright rejec tion of the league of nations cove nant, with or withoirt reservations, but they took the view tonight that the situation was developing with a satisfactory speed. By the time the national .convention meets, they pre- dieted it would be ready to go farther than Senator Lodge did in his state- I ment- The only expression of the presi dent's intentions was a White House Lonely Rancher Hears of Port-1 land Girl's Despair, and Message Suggests Hope for Two. When Miss Genes Brenner, pretty 1 7-y ear-old miss, 561 Irving street, attempted suicide by jumping from the Morrison-street bridge into the river Monday night her act may have marked the beginning of a romance. The news account in The Oregonian was read by J. P. Rusk, lonely rancher at Selah, Wash., route 2 who declares that he has felt like committing sui cide of late himself. "I wonder lf she and I couldn't start anew together on a fifty-fifty basis," he said in a letter received by The Oregonian yesterday. When Miss Brenner was notified of the contents of the letter last night she took Mr. Husk's name and ad dress. "I will write to him." she promised. "I would like to have that letter, too," she said. It waa sent to her. "I noted an item of news in yours of the 16th, saying a Miss Genes Bren ner had attempted suicide by jump ing from a bridge to the river," said Mr. Rusk in his letter. "Now, I feel sorry for anyone doing that, for I have recently contemplated the same thing, being driven from home and family and alone in the world with no one to care for and no one to work for. I wonder if she and I couldn't in some way start in anew on a 50-50 basis. Fortunately. I have a little money and would be glad to give her a chance. I am a rancher." Death of League Charged to "Savage Irony." PARTY POLITICS CONDEMNED Blighting of Allied Hopes Is Counted as Mistake. PRESS IS DISAPPOINTED MINERS AGAIN WALK OUT State Control Off, Men Refuse to Work for Operators. BISMARCK, N. !., Nov. 21. A re port of the closing of the Dakota mine at Burlington was received today by Adjutant-General Fraser from Captain S. J. Boyd of the state home guards. Captain Boyd had been notified last night of the decree Issued by the fed eral court at Fargo directing the state to cease exercising control over the Dakota Coal company's mines. Adjutant-General Fraser notified operators and miners this morning that the state was no longer in charge. The report to Adjutant-General Fraser said that the miners then declared they would not work for the operators and , walked out. LABOR DENOUNCES LODGE Council I'ledges Support to "Pres ident and True Americanism." Denunciation of Senator Lodge and his followers for their part in defeat ing ratification of the league of na tions covenant was sounded In reso lutions adopted by the central labor council at its" Thursday evening ses sion. Without a dissenting voice the res olutions carried, pledging the council to the support of "President Wilson and true Americanism." and declar ing of the opposition senators that "their actions and influences have apparently developed a sweeping vic tory for German propaganda and bol concluded on Fafie 2, Column 1.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 57 degrees; minimum, 40 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; gentle easterly winds. Foreign. British press criticises U. S. senate for rejection of treaty. Page 1. National. Railroad situation first problem to be tackled by. new congress in December. Page 3. V. S. awaits reply to sharp Mexican note. Page . Controversy over treaty ratification may go to people for decision in ItTJO. Page L Government again controls food; sugar problem met. Page 6. U. S. surrenders Imperator, giant liner, to England. Page ii. Dftmefctic. St. Louis brewers win injunction. Page 2. Thirteen states to form reclamation asso ciation. Page 2. Secretary of Labor Wilson submits new compromise proposal o miners. Page ti. Pan books in shape, avers accountant. Page fi- Pacific Northwest. Marh field soldier says Germany Is to profit from Russian trouble. Page J 8. Centralia post, American Iegion, calls for nation-wide war on raaicais. rage Vancouver jury acquits Mrs. Beauregard of murder charge. Page 1. Centralia American Legion post cares for - families of murder suspects. Page 4. Y p Hawley Jr. defendant in divorce suit. Page 5. Guard command ready to be turned over to Georpe A. White, ex-adjutant-general. Page 5. 8 porta. O. A. C. has chance to attain "football glory by defeating Pullman. Page 16. Benson Tech beats Commerce, 27 to 7. Page 17. Illinois battles Ohio State for mid-west football honors. Page 16 Commercial and Marine. Wheat and flour embargo will be lifted December 15. Page 23. Chicago corn depressed by closing down of industrial plants. Page 23. Early ad ances in stocks partially can celed. Page 23 Engineer chosen for Swan island project. Page 22. Corvus, accepted, to go out in ballast. Page 22. Portland and Vicinity. Humphrey's office political beehive. Page 10. Holstein breeders subscribe $4250. Page 8. Girl's plunge from bridge to end life may have happy sequel. Page 1. One person is killed and five injured in automobile crash. Page 14. Peninsula shipyard, closed by strike Octo ber 1, resumes operation. Page 1. Realtors approve plan to issue revokable permits to auto drivers. Page 15. N P- Sorenson. rich autolst. gets six months and $500 fine for recklesfcnesa, fcuige 10. Record livestock show will close tonight. Page 8. Portland to be on coal rations today. Face 11. Wife's plan to be aiater is failure. Page 8. 'Tcacc Treaty Now Scrap of Pa per," Says London News; More to Isolate America Seen. WASHINGTON, T. C., Nov. 21. (Special.) Cable dispatches from London received in official circles here today quote the Knglish press in criticism of the senate's treatment of the peace treaty. "There must be a savage irony In the death of President Wilson's league of nations at the hands of the Ameri can senate, says the Daily Express. -Europe fortunately has a more vital I concern in the matter than any ex pressed in sardonic interest in Ameri can party politics. We will not pre tend to an unquestionable confidence in the league of nations as the specifio against all recurrence of war, but this pact did represent the only chance of an assurance against war, the only alternative to those feverish arma ments which may keep a long peace but must provoke at last a war. Great Power Converted. "The great powers were slowly con verted to a kind of enthusiasm for Mr. Wilson's plan. The small powers dared not be excluded from it. Now the bottom is kicked out of it, and since the treaty depended for its sanc tion on the league, the peace treaty becomes a scrap of paper. "This is the consequence of tha American senate's pathetic attempt to set the clock back and to restore the United States to the Isolation from which the great war drags ed -them. Persisted in. it may convulse Europe. It cannot re-isolate Amer ica. There would arise at once the problem of a new German-American peace treaty. It is, indeed, also clearly impossible for America to avoid after costly and embittering delays, a ratification of peace and league." The Westminster Gazette writes; "It is a grave disappointment that the United States, whose entry into the war was hailed not only because it reinforced the material strength ot the allies, but because it reinvig o rated the moral ideas with which they began war, should do anything to blight the very sensitive plant of hope which grew out of the battle field. A merlon's Experience Forcast. "We can see in this controversy in the senate, the force of two conflict- , ing ideals, the one to bring the gov ernments of the world into, co-operation with one another with a view to the peace of the world and Its bet ter administration, the other to main tain and to increase the democratic control over individual governments by their own peoples in the sphere of foreign politics. We can see also ine particular American desire for a policy of isoiation and unfettered freedom. "We ourselves, relying on our nar row geoghaphicaJ separation from Europe, went through this stage during the last century, trying to maintain at once a splendid isolation, and complete parliamentary freedom. In tne face of an emergency we found the isolation dangerous and ultimate ly impossible. We- found that parlia mentary treedom was rendered un real by the swiftness with which events moved to their climax. "It may be that r America will have to learn our lessom for herself, but we do not believe that her experience will be different. Problem Lefx to Wilson. "There are many rumors as to the action that will be taken by Presi dent Wilson. We, do not know what he will do, but we do not doubt that he will have ever in mind not only the interest of he own country but of the world settlement." The Morning Post states: "We have raised a still, small voice against the covenant in this country and upon several grounds. The first is that it creates a dual allegiance which we take :to be dangerous to the British em pa re, .Hitherto every state within the empire has looked to his majesty's government as tne supreme authority ana the only pro tection; the covenant creates a new authority and . new guardian to which states witfhin the empire might appeal against the authority of his majesty's government. That is ob jection number one. "Objection No 2 is that it reduces and undermines the sovereignty of our independent state. Hitherto the British nation htaa been a sovereign nation with all a sovereign nation's powers. The proposal is to transfer some of these, piowers. vital powers, to a superior government in which the British nation will be in a per manent minority.1 "Our third objection is that it leads the nation to refiy upon an outside powtr for security, whereas all his tory shows that Ja nation survives in h free state only by its own power to (Concluded on Page 2, Columa .) t I